Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Katherine Heigl.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Katherine Marie Heigl is an American actress, producer and former fashion model. She is best known for her role as Dr. Izzie Stevens on the ABC television medical drama Grey's Anatomy from 2005 to 2010, a role that brought her recognition and accolades, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2007.
Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.
I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth.
I want my family to resemble the family I came from.
I'm not always so nice.
If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.
Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.
The world is still very bigoted.
Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.
Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.
My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.
I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.
It's easy to be taken advantage of if you're not honest.
So much about living life, to me, is about humility and gratitude. And I've tried very hard to have those qualities and be that person and I'm just so disappointed in myself that I allowed it to slip.
If I wasn't in this industry, I wouldn't work out.
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
A lot of children don't find forever homes because they're on that special-needs list, even if it's because of something as simple as her mother smoked cigarettes for a month, not knowing she was pregnant.
If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.
I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun.
I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.
There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.
Guys are much more obvious than they think they are.
If I have to be focused and watch what I say, then I have to be comfortable.
I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and measure my body fat. It wasn't a healthy way to live.
I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky.
A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.
I definitely want to go out and explore different personalities and different people.
I just like to shake things up, and your hair is one way to do it.
My good friends are Mormon, some of the best people I know.
I'm not really a first-move kind of gal.
I've had paranoid panic attacks.
I'm really proud of myself because I've pared my beauty regimen down to a cream blush and berry-tinted lip balm, which has saved me so much time.
It's more fun to think that there are other worlds.
I don't have a lot of discipline.
I don't make big grand gestures, generally.
I'm too lazy and I like food and I like my free time too much to spend it working out!
I never would rule out a great character or a great story. I don't care what the forum is. If I get to tell a story that I'm excited about, I'm in.
I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.
I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.
The mouthier I got, the more I'd be celebrated.
I spent so many years just saying what I felt without thinking about the ramifications, without understanding that I have this opinion but not everyone might share that opinion and now they don't like me because of it.
I have my moments, but generally speaking I shy away from being too lovey dovey.
As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.
I am a better mother for having something in my life and not just my children.
It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.
We are all human beings, part of the human race, and we need to be compassionate and giving and kind with one another.
I think that everybody has a right to their own thoughts, their own feelings and their own private moments, if they want them.
My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.
I'm a talker. I love a good debate.
When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.
I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell.
There were so many lean years. A lot of lean years.
I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.
My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.
Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.
I'm not terribly sentimental.
I'm terrible with patience.
I totally wouldn't mind being able to wave my hand head to toe and have, like, a whole new outfit.
Hollywood likes to label everyone so you're easier to identify.
My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.